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Babcock & Brown to sell shares at $5 ahead of ASX listing

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2004
Global investment banker Babcock & Brown will sell 110 million shares for $5 each in an initial public offer ahead of a listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. Babcock & Brown on Thursday lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Record month for options trading in August: ASX

The Australian Stock Exchange reported this week a new record average daily volume set for options trading in August. The ASX reported an average of 83,673 options contracts were traded each day in August compared with the previous highest average daily ...

Macquarie Bank takeover of RG Capital gets green light

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2004
Macquarie Bank\'s $173 million bid for Reg Grundy\'s RG Capital Radio has been given the green light by the takeover target\'s shareholders. RG Capital Radio shareholders today approved a scheme of arrangement under which all the radio network\'s issued ...

US lifts key interest rate

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2004
The Federal Reserve boosted a key short-term interest rate by a quarter-point overnight as the central bank continued its campaign to keep inflation under control. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee ...

Record Investments reports 57% profit growth in 03/04

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2004
Financial products producer and investor, Record Investment reported net profit after tax for 2003/04 of $25.9 million, up 57% on the previous year. A 9.5 cents a share fully franked dividend has been recommended by directors, bringing the total dividend ...

Active management in govt bonds fails to deliver; Navigator

The majority of actively managed fixed interest funds within the government bond sector generally struggle to outperform the index net of fees and expenses, Navigator's annual review of fixed interest funds has revealed. Navigator rated the performance ...

Market mulls complex Deutsche trusts merger plan

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2004
The securities of Deutsche Bank\'s listed property trusts fell on Thursday as investors digested the details of a complex proposal to merge the three. Deutsche Diversified Trust ended down five cents, or 3.79% at $1.27, Deutsche Industrial Trust dropped ...

Australia performs strongly in global sector survey; S&P

Global ratings agency Standard & Poor's today released the inaugural July edition of its Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), highlighting the comparative monthly returns of all performance returns of sector indices and companies in different ...

News Corp exit will not hurt ASX, says Humphry

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2004
The departure of News Corp from the Australian sharemarket would not have any long term adverse effects, Australian Stock Exchange chief executive Richard Humphry said on Sunday. Humphry said there had been comment that News Corp, which is joining the ...

Macquarie joins property trust consolidation

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2004
The Macquarie Bank-managed Macquarie Office Trust has accelerated its drive into the US market with an $850 million bid to acquire Principal America Office Trust. In the latest of several mergers and takeovers in the property trust sector, Macquarie ...